NEW YORK (NICCI CHEEKS MANAGEMENT) - Lushlife is the hottest new producer/rapper/singer/musican to come out of NY in quite some time. His debut album first released in Japan in January has shot up the charts surpassing many mainstays of the pop world. Japan - HMV
National Music CD Sales Charts
This Week...
1 CD Curtain Call: The Hits - Eminem
2 CD Monkey Business - Black Eyed Peas
3 CD Rising Tied - Fort Minor
4 CD Duets: Final Chapter - Notorious Big
5 CD Dj Kaori's Inmix - Dj Kaori
6 CD Concept Of Life - Beenie Man
7 CD Hey - Voice Mail
8 CD Order Of Operations - Lushlife
9 CD Late Registration - Kanye West
10 CD College Dropout +1 - Kanye West
Lushlife "Order of Operations" CD/LP Album is out 27/02/2006 on Scenario Records outside of Japan!
Lushlfie UK Tour Dates
27.02. Leeds- The HiFi Club (supporting Slum Village)
28.02. London - The Jazz Cafe (supporting Slum Village)
16.03. Glasgow - The School of Art
17.03. Dundee - The Reading Rooms
18.03. Edinburgh - The Jazz Bar
25.03. Sheffield - The Room
31.03. Leeds - The Faversham
Lushlife doesn't share your 'Hip-Hop is dead' sentiment. Maybe because he's listened to 'Illmatic' so many times lately that the record has been reduced to dust; but more likely because the last decade or so has been a series of grand obsessions over his own output. Since the early nineties, Lush has honed his craft with an almost monastic drive. His pre-teen years being spent hovering over turntables for hours a day, perfecting a precocious mixing and scratching style that spanned a wide array of genres and would later become emblematic of New York City's downtown lounge culture.
True to classic Hip-Hop progression, as a teenager in the mid-to-late nineties, Lushlife flowered from downtown New York record selector to prodigious producer and beat-smith. His early instrumental work covered at least as much ground as his DJ sets, deftly shifting between genres as singular as Downtempo, House, Hip-Hop and Doo-Wop.
Lush's sizeable musical reach is as much a by-product of the lessons learned train-wrecking beats for eager audiences, as it is a result of a strict and formal musical education. He has 13 years of classical piano training, having studied from the age of 5, along with an intense 7-year course in Jazz kit drumming. Along the way he's arranged for Jazz combos and performed on street-corners, at Manhattan's prestigious Steinway Hall and everywhere in between. Lush went on to study music at university, where after a year spent crestfallen and destroyed, he got out of bed to turn Hip-Hop out.
At the age of twenty, Lush found his voice. Unable to find emcees to suit his vision, he put his teenage lunch-table flowing ability to the test by writing rhymes to his own beats. What came out was a natural flow, a testament to a decade-plus love affair with hip-hop.
Not content with just producing his own tracks, Lushlife kept us entertained with an intricate reworking of the Beach Boys pop classic 'Pet Sounds' alongside the multi-platinum vocals of hip hop's MVP Kanye West, aptly titled, 'West Sounds'. This mash up mix was hailed as the season's 'Grey' album, having had over 250,000 online downloads (and counting) in just over a month after it's release.
Lushlife's debut single, 'No Foundation' was a tasty, summer time slice of East Coast rhythm making and the talented producer serves up the easy flowing flavour in 2006 with this self-produced, self-written highly touted debut LP, 'Order of Operations.' The full-length, which Lush thinks of as his 'teenage symphony to Hip-Hop,' blurs our sense of time by evoking emotions that we tie to Hip-Hop's past whilst making a small step towards Hip-Hop's future.
Written, produced, and performed entirely by the artist himself, 'Order of Operations' reveals Lushlife's optimistic vision of Hip-Hop.
Some words of praise for 'Westsounds':
'Enthralling example of the DJ/producer's art…' - Independent.
'The result is as soothing as a Hawaiian shirt flapping in the breeze.' - Times Knowledge
'Academic exercise that bridges the cultural divide…' - Daily Mirror
'Unlikely but brilliant…' - The Sun
